grandiose

adjective

Characterized by greatness of scope or intent; grand: a grandiose plan to develop the city's waterfront.

Characterized by excessive self-importance or affected grandeur; pompous: “It's important &ellipsis; for judges not to be rattled by political attacks into grandiose assertions of judicial supremacy”(Jeffrey Rosen).

Origin of grandiose

French, from Italian grandioso, from grande, great, from Latin grandis.

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An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ; it was that Leviathan, the Nation. André Malraux